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Giving false information to obtain Canadian citizenship is a serious offence.

It certainly merits revoking the citizenship of any immigrant to Canada who does it.

But it’s not as serious as a dual citizen carrying out terrorist attacks against Canada.

This makes it hard to understand the Trudeau government’s bizarre obsession with protecting the Canadian citizenship of dual citizens who are convicted of terrorism.

This even though it accepts the current law that can be used to revoke the Canadian citizenship of anyone who lies to obtain it.

All this goes back to the election campaign when Justin Trudeau -- and now Immigration Minister John McCallum -- accused the Harper government of creating two classes of citizens by passing a law empowering the government to strip the citizenship of dual citizens convicted of terrorism.

The Liberals keep repeating the silly chant that, “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” to justify their position.

Like most ideologically-based chants, this slogan doesn’t make any sense.

As Tory MP Jason Kenney has correctly observed, citizenship for someone not born in Canada is a privilege, not a right.

A dual citizen who commits acts of terrorism against Canada, for which he or she has been convicted, has clearly abused the privilege of receiving Canadian citizenship.

The fact the Liberals have no objection to continuing to revoke the citizenship of anyone who obtains it fraudulently makes their position even more illogical.

Once you acknowledge Canada has the right to determine who will or won’t be accepted into Canada as a citizen on the basis of their conduct, then surely being convicted of terrorism trumps providing false information to obtain citizenship, given that both are very serious offences.

The immediate impact of the changes the Liberals are making to Canada’s immigration law is that they will re-instate the Canadian citizenship of Zakaria Amara, a ringleader of the al-Qaida inspired Toronto 18 convicted of plotting terrorist acts against Canada.

The Trudeau government has also announced it will drop citizenship revocation proceedings against nine other convicted terrorists who are dual citizens.

Its determination to do so defies logic and reason and devalues Canadian citizenship.

It also imperils the safety of all law-abiding Canadians, regardless of where they were born.

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Trudeau’s folly: Terrorist-citizens

Giving false information to obtain Canadian citizenship is a serious offence.

It certainly merits revoking the citizenship of any immigrant to Canada who does it.

But it’s not as serious as a dual citizen carrying out terrorist attacks against Canada.

This makes it hard to understand the Trudeau government’s bizarre obsession with protecting the Canadian citizenship of dual citizens who are convicted of terrorism.

This even though it accepts the current law that can be used to revoke the Canadian citizenship of anyone who lies to obtain it.

All this goes back to the election campaign when Justin Trudeau -- and now Immigration Minister John McCallum -- accused the Harper government of creating two classes of citizens by passing a law empowering the government to strip the citizenship of dual citizens convicted of terrorism.

The Liberals keep repeating the silly chant that, “a Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian” to justify their position.